Blog Video Series: TLCC2 Three Labs Supercomputing Presentation
The following is a video presentation given by Matt Leininger of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) discussing the second Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Cluster (TLCC2) supercomputer deployment on behalf of the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program. Matt is talking about the implementation and current deployment of the Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputers based on the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family to the three laboratories: Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Los Alamos (LANL), and Sandia (SNL). This installation will exceed 6 PFLOPs of capacity computing to support the NNSA Life Extension Program (LEP) and research relating to aging weapons systems modeling; efforts critical to ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the nuclear weapons in the stockpile as they age well beyond their intended deployment life.
The new Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputers based on the Intel® Xeon E5 family have been deployed using the innovative Scalable Units design where each SU represents approximately 50 teraflops of computing power and will be configured and installed with the same architecture as Appro had deployed in the previously awarded contract; a concept that allows rapid manufacturing, delivery, acceptance and integration of multiple Linux clusters. Recently, “Zin”, one of the LLNL supercomputer deployed was ranked as the 15th fastest supercomputer in the world according to the latest Top500 list.
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Blog Video Series: University of Tsukuba Supercomputer Presentation
Watch a presentation from Professor Taisuke Boku, Deputy Director for the Center of Computational Science discussing the implementation of the new Appro Xtreme-X™ supercomputer based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5 Family. This hybrid system consists of 2 CPUs and 4 NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs per node to achieve over 800TFLOPs of peak performance. The system is now supporting the HA-PACS, Highly Accelerated Parallel Advanced system for Computational Sciences project that has just been installed by Appro at the University of Tsukuba. HA-PACS is a 3-year project at the CCS, University of Tsukuba, to develop a new generation of large scale hybrid supercomputer to be used as a testbed study to develop large scale parallel code for important domain sciences creating a path to Exascale for next generation computing. The system will support computational sciences breakthroughs in the fields of subatomic particles, life sciences, space, nuclear physics and earth environment. Watch the video presentation to learn more about this new system.
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Appro Offers Strong Partnership with Intel® for Cutting-Edge Systems
Appro has collaborated with Intel® for over 12 years to provide exceptional high-performance computing solutions to customers around the world and has continued to pave the way for innovative supercomputing technologies. Within this past year, Appro and Intel® have partnered to deploy some of the fastest and most cost-effective supercomputers in today’s market including: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Los Alamos, SDSC and University of Tsukuba. In the video below Steve Dallman, Intel’s VP and GM of Intel World Wide Reseller Channel Organization discusses Intel’s partnership with Appro and the continued successes both companies have had by working together.
Steve Dallman points out that with the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family incorporated into the heart of Appro HPC computing solutions, the system will be able to provide up to 80% better performance at the same power level than the previous Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. He highlights the continued support of Appro for future Intel® processing technologies to provide enhanced performance and greater computing capabilities for HPC end-users. Steve also emphasizes Appro’s ability to provide cutting-edge solutions by saying that “Appro Delivers great performance through the use of Intel’s products and their customers are benefiting through the tremendous results that the Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer provides.” Watch the video below and get full details of Steve’s message to include a summary of the features and benefits of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 Product Family.
Appro and Intel have also just released a new white paper, “Enabling Performance-per-Watt Gains in High Performance Cluster Computing”. The white paper describes the key factors influencing server platform selection including benchmark tests and results. To download the white paper, go to www.appro.com/whitepaper/performance_per_watt_gains_HPC.asp
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